bottling Flipping bottles with orifice reducers

[robanero7]

Out of curiosity, is the hot fill and flip method still efective at sterilization if you've placed an orifice reducer on the bottle before capping and flipping?

 

[Tybo]

I flip the bottles after adding the reducer and cap but I also spray the reducer and the inside of the cap with starsan before applying.  
I'll be watching to see what others have to say.

 

[Siv]

Last year I flipped when hot filling a couple of my sauces - all with reducers. But I keep the pH below 4 anyway so I'm not sure if it's that big a deal. I would be interested to hear the community thoughts on this but I don't trust myself to keep anything above pH 4 without pressure canning.

 

[salsalady]

Its the heat of the sauce that does the sanitizing. Orofice reducers dont hamper that process. I have a couple sauces that are approved for HFH with reducers.

 

[robanero7]

Thanks SalsaLady!